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@GabrielRossman

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Joined September 2011

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    On the internet nobody knows you're a Hellenistic era sculpture personifying human frailty

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  2. 7 hours ago

    Kennedy chokes up as he says "a system forcefully rigged from those at the top." Guy from a family that's skated on everything from rape to manslaughter to (for 30+ yrs at least) murder raps

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  3. 16 hours ago

    So the early SOTU was, in its way, about CONGRESSIONAL SUPREMACY. The president was obligated to furnish Congress with information. This was especially the case after it became written (rather than spoken) with Jefferson.

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  4. Jan 29

    My colleague forgot to consult the only political alignment chart that matters

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  5. 14 hours ago

    My favorite quote, from Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

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  6. The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz after the war the communists later arrested and executed him after a show-trial. another reason not to believe in justice

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  7. 17 hours ago

    Terribly sad news from TEDx San Diego:

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  8. Archbishop Chaput: “the Cessario review—not just its content, which seemed oddly insensitive and indulgent about the whole ugly affair, but also the fact that the review appeared at all—has left many Jews angry and anxious, and many Catholics baffled.”

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  9. 18 hours ago

    Who among us hasn't been denied their emotional support peacock?

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  10. Can’t wait until 2040 when President Jayden YouTube Meme has a Pepe face tattoo and Strange New Respect Kellyanne Conway is a columnist who bemoans the sad demise of the once proud GOP.

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  11. I sincerely, deeply, truly hate the State of the Union address. I hate everything about it. It's a disgusting display of lowness and cravenness.

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  12. If you think of it on the SAT scale, these studies imply an average priming effect of 128 points. The outlier is the equivalent of over 400 (!) SAT points. For scale, the effect of test prep is about 30 SAT points. How can anyone believe this shit?

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  13. As you'd expect for an over-hyped priming literature, stereotype threat shows publication bias, with implausibly large effects from tiny samples. h/t

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  14. My brain somehow ran together "Jeb Bush" on the first line and "Julia Ioffe" on the second and thought "Jello Biafra is certainly an unexpected guest but should be interesting"

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  15. Jan 29

    The latest episode of The Annex is out! Featuring

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  16. Jan 29

    This doesn't get discussed enough, but I hate extreme PC speech policing on aesthetic grounds Imagine trying to write a beautiful sentence while obeying these rules. It's basically the death of good writing. Shakespeare couldn't write a memorable sentence obeying these rules

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  17. Is your child texting about computational social science? BRB = bringing R bitch SMH = stemming morphemes hard POS = parallelized open source WTTP = way to tidy panels PAL= Python always lags GYPO = get your pipe open

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  18. Jeb! makes the Bourbons look like models of both learning and forgetfulness

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  19. Jan 29

    There's a lot that is weird about Peterson, but the obsession with postmodernism is downright delusional. In three decades in academia I've never run into a postmodernist except the occasional lit or anthro person.

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  21. The Wilt Chamberlain problem we deserve, but not the one we need right now

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